There are a number of critical approaches to interpreting literature. Specializing in one of these forms of criticism will help you focus your reading and help you construct well supported essays. This article will give you a brief overview of some of those approaches. Historical Criticism During the nineteenth century, the growing faith in science ...
The play Cloud Nine, by Caryl Churchill, presents two very different time periods in Britain each taking place in separate acts of the play. In Act I the ideas of the British Victorian era are prevalent through displays of “deviant” sexual behavior between the characters. This is juxtaposed with Act II taking place in 1979 ...
There are several major schools of thought in psychology; they are structuralism, psychodynamic, behaviorism, evolutionary, and cognitive perspectives. Each of these schools range in areas of the human mind, for example sensation, emotion, the brains computer-like response to their functions, healing the mind with probing of problems and motives, the importance of values and intentions, ...
The term Cultural Materialism in literary theory and cultural studies was made current in 1985 when it was used by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield who developed a methodology which included an analysis of any historical material (including literature) within a politicized framework. The four characteristics of their method concerning Cultural Materialism are: Historical context ...
Psychology is the scientific study of mental processes and behaviors of individuals. Modern psychology has undergone a transformation that brought curiosity about human mental and behavioral processes into a developed scientific field of study. Wilhelm Wundt set up the first formal laboratory that was specifically devoted to the study of experimental psychology. Wundt wanted to ...
Linguistics: This is a broad definition for what is generally termed the study of language itself, often called the science of language. The term traces back to the Latin root lingua which meant only the muscle known as the tongue, but also the words that issued forth courtesy of that tongue. Linguistics as practiced in ...
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